All movements go too far.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.